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Communication for Development: Need for Collective Vision
Chandrasekher, Devan - eSocialSciences - 2006
Review of: Communication Technology and Human Development: Recent Experiences in the Indian Social Sector by Avik Ghosh; Sage Publications, New Delhi; 2006; Rs. 340.
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How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People’s Donations to Fund Public Goods?
Karlan, Dean; List, John A - eSocialSciences - 2012
field experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from … condition generates more and larger donations relative to no match. The second experiment shows that providing a credible … quality signal by identifying the matching donor generates even more and larger donations than not naming the matching donor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133242
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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
Miquel, Gerard Padro-i-; Qian, Nancy; Yao, Yang - eSocialSciences - 2013
This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which religious fractionalization is taken as a proxy. [BREAD Working No. 366]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/366.pdf].
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Persistent Inequality: An Explanation Based on Limited Parental Altruism
Das, Mausumi - eSocialSciences - 2008
parental altruism. It is postulated that the degree of parental altruism is ‘limited’ by the financial status of the parent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341789
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Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?
Schoonbroodt, Alice; Tertilt, Michele - eSocialSciences - 2010
than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543088
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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
Finan, Frederico; Schechter, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2009
In this paper, how social preferences overcome the commitment problems implicit in vote-buying is examined. Data used for the study is a survey information on vote-buying experienced in a 2006 municipal election in Paraguay, with information on behavior in experiments carried out in 2002....
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Gestational Surrogacy Contracts: Altruistic or Commercial ?
Banerjee, Swapnendu - eSocialSciences - 2008
always optimal irrespective of altruism, outside option and social ignominy. …
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